Seeking Vieux Telegraphe STOP
“Hi. I’m looking for the Vieux Telegraphe 04?”
“Did you buy it on futures?”
“No.”
“Then, no, I’m sorry there’s none left available.”
Such was my first call trying to find the wine, which I had tasted previously but failed to buy via futures. Actually, it wouldn’t have mattered if I had bought the futures since the retailer that I had called, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants in Berkeley (the retail arm of the wine’s national importer), doesn’t ship to my home state of New York.
So I checked wine-searcher.com. Sam’s in Chicago had the wine. I called them.
“We don’t ship to New York,” came the reply.
What?!? I’ve ordered from them before.
I called Sherry-Lehmann in New York City. They had the 03.
“When do you expect to get the 04?”
“It’s on order but I’m not sure when it will arrive. A lot of times the distributors hold back new vintages until the current one is sold out. The 03 is really delicious.”
In fact, it did seem to be a regional phenomenon since I couldn’t find a retailer in the East with the wine in stock.
What was I to do? Stay tuned…
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On October 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pm ,winesmith wrote:
Road trip?
On October 4th, 2006 at 2:22 am ,nomadfromcincy wrote:
Ask Kermit where it might be available… they were able to guide me to a retailer.
On November 21st, 2006 at 8:01 am ,Anonymous wrote:
I have some ’04 and about to buy some ’05 too. Very nice apparently!